Iris Mary Butler (15 June 1905 – 9 November 2002) was an English journalist and historian. Butler was born in Simla, India, to Sir Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler and his wife Ann. Her brother was the Conservative politician Rab Butler.''The Daily Telegraph''
Iris Portal
(22 November 2002). She wrote for the '' Eastern Daily Press'' and in 1967 published an account of the tempestuous relationship between Queen Anne, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough and

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. In 1927, she married Gervas Portal but published works under her maiden name. Iris Butler's grandson is Justin Welby, the

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, who has served since 2013."Welby's Maternal Grandmother"
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Works

*''Rule of Three'' (1967). *''The Viceroy's Wife: Letters of Alice, Countess of Reading, from India 1921-1925'' (1969). *''The Eldest Brother: the Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842'' (1973).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Iris 1905 births 2002 deaths English journalists People from Shimla 20th-century English historians British people in colonial India